Wind is nothing more than the movement of air molecules from one place to the next. The direction and speed of the wind represents the balance between three basic forces acting on it: the pressure gradient, the Coriolis force, and surface friction.
Biographical Information. Chip Berlet is an investigative reporter, independent scholar, photographer, videographer, and progressive activist. As a human rights activist he has spent over forty years studying prejudice, demonization, scapegoating, demagoguery, conspiracism, and authoritarianism.
Sir Henry Bessemer, (born Jan. 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, Eng.âdied March 15, 1898, London), inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter. He was knighted in 1879. Bessemer was the son of an engineer and typefounder.